ASPIRE, The Concrete Bridge Magazine, Winter 2010

The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Bridge At Matagorda, Texas -www.aspirebridge.org
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The Matagorda Peninsula in Texas is a largely undeveloped, 60-mile-long stretch of barrier islands known for its fishing, beautiful beaches, and cattle ranching. Only one of the two islands comprising the peninsula is accessible by vehicle. Formerly, that access was by a single, floating swing bridge across the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at Matagorda. The bridge is used by vacationers and a few year-round inhabitants. Interestingly, ranchers owning property on both the mainland and island, also use it to drive their herds to the island for winter grazing.

2009 Harry Edwards Industry Advancement Award

Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) - SH58 Ramp A Flyover Bridge

This Colorado ramp flyover bridge is unique both for its use of state-of-the-art curved precast concrete girders and for the difficult, busy traffic thoroughfares over which it was built. All traffic crossings were high-volume roadways that required night and weekend erection and lane closures. The bridge currently has the longest span using constant-depth precast U-girder construction in Colorado. It employs a number of innovations and refinements of this type of construction, which demonstrates the flexibility inherent in the use of precast U-girders. The bridge's design blends the advantages of cast-in-place concrete construction -Read More...

2009 American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)

Merit Award, SH58 Ramp A Flyover Bridge

The Ramp A flyover bridge was designed to allow access to the east side of the city of Golden from eastbound I-70. Summit performed the structural engineering design of the bridge substructure and superstructure and provided extensive engineering support to the Contractor. The Ramp A project demonstrates the advantages of using locally manufactured, precast concrete components to construct cost-effective, complex, long-span structures in high profile applications. Read More...

ASPIRE, The Concrete Bridge Magazine, Summer 2009

Innovation Speeds Construction Bijou Street Bridge over Monument Creek - www.aspirebridge.org
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Designers of the Bijou Street Bridge in Colorado Springs, Colo., created a spliced, post-tensioned, precast concrete superstructure that features innovative prestressing layouts and variable cross-sections to accommodate the unique geometric requirements and erection scheme.

ASPIRE, The Concrete Bridge Magazine, Summer 2009

I-45 Galveston Causeway - www.aspirebridge.org
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The new I-45 Galveston Causeway Bridge, which crosses Galveston Bay in Texas, replaces two existing structures that had outlived their useful service life. The new bridge uses a combination of precast, prestressed concrete I girders and a castin- place concrete, variable-depth, doublecell, segmental box girder.

2008 Precast Concrete Institute Bridge Design Award

Best Bridges With Main Span From 75 to 150 Feet Long - Bijou Bridge Over Monument Creek

“This project provides an excellent application of very effectively expanding the use of precast concrete U girders to accomplish a good design and to speed construction.”

- Judges Comments

2007 Precast Concrete Institute Bridge Design Award

Best Bridge with Spans Greater Than 150 Feet - RAMP K Flyover

“This project provides a very economical design for spans as long as 200 feet...The curved design is quite innovative and sets an example for future bridges of this kind.”

- Judges Comments